Croatian mummy found to suffer from Hand-Schuller-Christian disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus)Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have...Philae's Hathor temple gets facelift in advance of formal inauguration
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)To the east of the famous Isis temple on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt, workers and archaeologists are busy at work. They are...Antiquities Trash...Again!
Cairo/Giza Daily Photo (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani)With photo. There is an area out in the desert behind the Step Pyramid where the Sakkara Antiquities people dump their dig debris....Restaurada la momia de un sacerdote de Imhotep
TelecinoThanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for this link. El Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, a través del Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (IPCE), ha finalizado...Los hallazgos en la tumba del visir Amen-Hotep podrían cambiar parte de la historia
Ushebtis Egipcios (Pilar )La excavación aporta datos hasta ahora desconocidos de este personaje, como que la tumba podría haberse utilizado “como un lugar sagrado donde se conmemoraba la...Online resources for study of writing surfaces
Egypt Exploration SocietyFollowing the very successful seminar on scribes and writing surfaces, 'Inside the Mind of the Scribe' at Doughty Mews on 14 April 2012, we are delighted...How DID they build the pyramids…?
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)Manchester Museum has a unique collection of objects connected with pyramid building. Many everyday tools have survived from a settlement specially-planned to...Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King)The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived...Texts in translation #4: an Akh-iqr-n-Ra stela of Ptah-hesy
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)With photos.This is a fine example of a rare type of stela, made to honour the ‘effective spirits of Re’ (Akhw iqr...Exhibition: Twilight of the Pharaohs (France)
Cruisemates (Barbara Ferguson and Tim Kennedy)With some gorgeous photographs.Egyptology and antiquity fans won't want to miss this displayed collection of precious treasures in Paris.A jewel-box mansion in the...Online: Le Musée Egyptien
DigiZeitschriften Thanks to Chuck Jones and his Ancient World Online blog for this link.Le Musée Egyptien al-Mathaf al-Misrī 1909-1915 Le Musée Egyptien Band 3 1904-1907 Le...Exhibition: Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb (Australia)
ABC Brisbane (Emma Sykes)It's slightly macabre but our fascination with the mummified bodies of men, women and children from ancient civilisations continues to draw captivated audiences to exhibitions...Book Review: Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Phiroze Vasunia)Ian S. Moyer, Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. “O Egypt, Egypt, of your pious...Book Review: Egypt by H.H.Powers
Egyptians (Tim Reid)Egypt by H.H.Powers, The University Travel Series, The Macmillan Company, 1924Right from the start of this pocket sized book by Harry Powers the author appears to...MOSI mummy exhibit unwraps thousands of years of mysteries (U.S.)
Tampa Bay Online (Cloe Cabrera)The cherubic-faced baby sits frozen in eternal repose, arms crossed on its knees, trimmed hair, tiny fingernails and a small amulet around its neck.Researchers...Vetting Wikipedia for WikiLink
Brooklyn Museum (Edward Bleiberg)Interesting insight into how some museums are trying to provide more information for visitors about exhibits.In Shelley’s previous post, she announced the installation of QR...Ramesses replica in place in Memphis, US
Daily Helmsman (Christina Holloway)Trivia, but quite a nice story.The statue of Ramesses the Great, which stood tall in front of the Pyramid for 13 years, is now greeting...
Overlooked statue found to represent children of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)Cleopatra's twin babies now have a face. An Italian Egyptologist has rediscovered a sculpture of Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, the offspring of Mark Antony...Missing fragments of papyrus found in Australia
ABC News With VideoMissing fragments from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been uncovered deep in the stores of the Queensland Museum.The manuscript belonged to a...Depiction of Ramesses III found at Karnak
Eypt State Information Service A big archaeological slab dating back to the era of Ramesses III, the most famous king of the Dynasty 20 (The Modern State era) was...New York dealer pleads guilty to smuggling
ArtInfo (Benjamin Sutton)With a slideshow of some of the arteacts. How did a Brooklyn man smuggle enough Egyptian artifacts into the U.S. to open a small museum? Mostly...Archaeologists find ancient scarab in Jerusalem
Israel Hayom (Yori Yalon) Rare Egyptian artifact dates back to the 13th century B.C.E., the era when some scholars speculate the Exodus may have occurred • Scarab...Tomb of Meresankh III on Osirisnet
Osirisnet From Thierry Benderitte: In the introduction (dated 1974), of the publication which William Kelly Simpson, together with Dows Dunham, dedicated to the monument, he made the following comment...Ramesses to tie up traffic Monday
The Commercial Appeal (Linda A. Moore)On Monday the statue of Ramesses II will be moved from the front of The Pyramid to the University of Memphis campus.The process...Description de L’Egypte' to be restored
Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref)After decades hidden on the shelves of the library of the Antiquities Documentation Centre, a genuine copy of La Description de L’Egypte is now being...Exhibition: The Dawn of Egyptian Art
nj.com (Dan Bischoff)The bull’s head is tiny, napped from a flint core 5,650 years ago, but its horns make a beautifully sweet curve to point at one another...Exhibition: Late pharaonic art
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian)Crépuscule des pharaons, chefs d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, until 23 July 2012.Following the end of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom...Exhibtion: Mummy - Secrets of the Tomb
ABC BrisbaneWith slideshow narrated by John Taylor, British MuseumNumbers of visitors to the Queensland Museum are expected to swell significantly when a new exhibition from the British Museums...A Day in Alexandria
bikyamasr (Katharine Smith) Centuries of history are scattered throughout Alexandria’s streets, but many of its greatest treasures are buried beneath them, or are submerged underwater. While a vivid...Another article about the Nefertiti bust dispute.
Al Ahram Weekly (Wafaa El-Seddiq)A century has passed since the bust of Nefertiti was discovered in Tel Al-Amarna, near Minya. Eleven years after the discovery a debate over...Three Book Reviews on the FT
Financial Times (John Ray)Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion, by Andrew Robinson, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95, 272 pagesA History of Ancient Egypt: From the...Book Review: Explorers of the Nile
History Today (Review by Andrew Lycett)Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim JealIt is more than 50 years since Alan...Photo for Today - Shabti
Painted limestone statue of a Chantress of Amun, with spell 6from the Book of the Dead19th Dynasty.. Provenance unknownBritish Museum. EA24428 ...
